If you think the situation in Washington is bad now, you don’t remember Watergate

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Mar 8, 2013 at 5:05 PM

The Watergate scandal of forty years ago was too complicated to recount here in all its details. Suffice it say that it was a very big deal.

And while I’m no huge fan of George Will and was even less an admirer of the late Robert Bork, I have to recommend THIS COLUMN in which Will invokes Bork’s last book to make the point that nothing going on in Washington today is nearly as bad as what happened during Richard Nixon’s second term as president:

Watergate now seems as distant as the Punic Wars. Nixon, born 100 years ago in ...

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Pat Cunningham

The Watergate scandal of forty years ago was too complicated to recount here in all its details. Suffice it say that it was a very big deal.

And while I’m no huge fan of George Will and was even less an admirer of the late Robert Bork, I have to recommend THIS COLUMN in which Will invokes Bork’s last book to make the point that nothing going on in Washington today is nearly as bad as what happened during Richard Nixon’s second term as president:

Watergate now seems as distant as the Punic Wars. Nixon, born 100 years ago in ...

Read more

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